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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Prey depletion, interspecific competition, and the energetics of hunting in endangered African wild dogs,

Scott Creel, James Redcliffe, Ben Goodheart, Johnathan Reyes de Merkle, Henry Mwape, Stephanie Matsushima, Chase Dart, Kachama Banda, Bridget Mayani, Johane Njobvu and 12 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Scott CreelDepartment of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.ORCID 0000-0003-3170-6113
James RedcliffeSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP, United Kingdom.
Ben GoodheartDepartment of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Johnathan Reyes de MerkleDepartment of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Henry MwapeZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Stephanie MatsushimaZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0001-6069-3839
Chase DartZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Kachama BandaZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Bridget MayaniZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Johane NjobvuZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Reuben KabungoZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Michelo MungoloZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Ruth KabweZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Emmanuel KaseketiZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Will DonaldMusekese Conservation, Kafue National Park, Lusaka Province, Zambia.
Adrian KalukaZambia Department of National Parks, Chilanga, Lusaka Province, Zambia.
Clive ChifunteZambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife, Mumbwa, Central Province, Zambia.
Howard MaimboZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.ORCID 0009-0003-1002-2684
Luzy PlankenhornZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
David ChristiansonZambian Carnivore Programme, Mfuwe, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Matthew S BeckerDepartment of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Rory P WilsonSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3177-0107

Funding

IUCN/SOS NANational Environmental Research Council NE/X015491/1National Geographic Society (NGS) NANational Science Foundation (NSF) DEB-2032131National Science Foundation (NSF) DEB-2221826National Science Foundation (NSF) IOS-1145749The Bennink Foundation NAWorld Wildlife Fund Zambia and Netherlands NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large herbivores are in decline in much of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, and true apex carnivores like the lion (

Indexed as

CanidaeEndangered SpeciesPredatory BehaviorAnimalsCompetitive BehaviorEcosystemEnergy MetabolismLionscompetitionconservationenergeticsmovementprey depletion

Identifiers

PMID39869818
PMCPMC11831116

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